First of all, the deal with the eye patch is that I lost my left eye to cancer.  I'm a singer/song writer, and I play bass, guitar, keys, drums, etc., and I'm an ASCAP Member.  My musical career began as a bass player. I played bass for a number of Blues, and Classic Rock bands. Eventually, I moved more towards playing guitar, as I became more of a solo artist. At this time I began concentrating more on making my own recordings. Now I am a one man band, and I record my own music in my home studio. I might throw a band together someday and hit the road, but these days I'm more interested in licensing music for television, motion pictures, radio, etc. My influences are hard to list, because I am into so many different types of music. I dig Hard Rock, and Heavy Metal, and really into Heathen, Viking, and Pagan Folk Metal